1 /* Accumulation of various pieces of knowledge about ELF.
2 Copyright (C) 2000-2012 Red Hat, Inc.
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4 Written by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>, 2000.
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51 #ifndef _ELF_KNOWLEDGE_H
52 #define _ELF_KNOWLEDGE_H 1
57 /* Test whether a section can be stripped or not. */
58 #define SECTION_STRIP_P(shdr, name, remove_comment) \
59 /* Sections which are allocated are not removed. */ \
60 (((shdr)->sh_flags & SHF_ALLOC) == 0 \
61 /* We never remove .note sections. */ \
62 && (shdr)->sh_type != SHT_NOTE \
63 && (((shdr)->sh_type) != SHT_PROGBITS \
64 /* Never remove .gnu.warning.* sections. */ \
65 || (strncmp (name, ".gnu.warning.", sizeof ".gnu.warning." - 1) != 0 \
66 /* We remove .comment sections only if explicitly told to do so. */\
68 || strcmp (name, ".comment") != 0))))
71 /* Test whether `sh_info' field in section header contains a section
72 index. There are two kinds of sections doing this:
74 - the sections containing relocation information reference in this
75 field the section to which the relocations apply;
77 - section with the SHF_INFO_LINK flag set to signal that `sh_info'
78 references a section. This allows correct handling of unknown
80 #define SH_INFO_LINK_P(Shdr) \
81 ((Shdr)->sh_type == SHT_REL || (Shdr)->sh_type == SHT_RELA \
82 || ((Shdr)->sh_flags & SHF_INFO_LINK) != 0)
85 /* When combining ELF section flags we must distinguish two kinds:
87 - flags which cause problem if not added to the result even if not
88 present in all input sections
90 - flags which cause problem if added to the result if not present
93 The following definition is for the general case. There might be
94 machine specific extensions. */
95 #define SH_FLAGS_COMBINE(Flags1, Flags2) \
97 & (SHF_WRITE | SHF_ALLOC | SHF_EXECINSTR | SHF_LINK_ORDER \
98 | SHF_OS_NONCONFORMING | SHF_GROUP)) \
99 | (Flags1 & Flags2 & (SHF_MERGE | SHF_STRINGS | SHF_INFO_LINK)))
101 /* Similar macro: return the bits of the flags which necessarily must
102 match if two sections are automatically combined. Sections still
103 can be forcefully combined in which case SH_FLAGS_COMBINE can be
104 used to determine the combined flags. */
105 #define SH_FLAGS_IMPORTANT(Flags) \
106 ((Flags) & ~((GElf_Xword) 0 | SHF_LINK_ORDER | SHF_OS_NONCONFORMING))
109 /* Size of an entry in the hash table. The ELF specification says all
110 entries are regardless of platform 32-bits in size. Early 64-bit
111 ports (namely Alpha for Linux) got this wrong. The wording was not
114 Several years later the ABI for the 64-bit S390s was developed.
115 Many things were copied from the IA-64 ABI (which uses the correct
116 32-bit entry size) but what do these people do? They use 64-bit
117 entries. It is really shocking to see what kind of morons are out
118 there. And even worse: they are allowed to design ABIs. */
119 #define SH_ENTSIZE_HASH(Ehdr) \
120 ((Ehdr)->e_machine == EM_ALPHA \
121 || ((Ehdr)->e_machine == EM_S390 \
122 && (Ehdr)->e_ident[EI_CLASS] == ELFCLASS64) ? 8 : 4)
124 #endif /* elf-knowledge.h */